{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-single-use-vapes-wales-regulations-2024/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-single-use-vapes-wales-regulations-2024/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2024/1324",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection (Single-use Vapes) (Wales) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-single-use-vapes-wales-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“civil sanction” (“sancsiwn sifil”) means a fixed monetary penalty, a variable monetary penalty, a compliance notice, a non-compliance penalty, a stop notice or an enforcement undertaking (and references to imposition of a civil sanction include acceptance of an enforcement undertaking);\n“compliance notice” (“hysbysiad cydymffurfio”) has the meaning given by paragraph 1(1)(c) of the Schedule;\n“container” (“cynhwysydd”) means a cartridge, pod, tank, capsule, or any other receptacle designed to hold a vaping substance and to be used with a vape;\n“enforcement officer” (“swyddog gorfodaeth”) means a person authorised under regulation 7(1);\n“enforcement undertaking” (“ymgymeriad gorfodi”) means a written undertaking to take such action as may be specified in the undertaking, within such period as may be so specified;\n“fixed monetary penalty” (“cosb ariannol benodedig”) has the meaning given by paragraph 1(1)(a) of the Schedule;\n“local authority” (“awdurdod lleol”) means a county council or county borough council in Wales;\n“non-compliance penalty” (“cosb am beidio â chydymffurfio”) has the meaning given in paragraph 26(1) of the Schedule;\n“premises” (“mangre”) includes any land, vehicle, vessel or mobile plant;\n“regulator” (“rheoleiddiwr”) means a local authority;\n“single-use vape” (“fêp untro”) has the meaning given in regulation 3(1);\n“stop notice” (“hysbysiad stop”) has the meaning given by paragraph 11(2) of the Schedule;\n“supply” (“cyflenwi”) means supply, whether by sale or not, in the course of a business;\n“third-party undertaking” (“ymgymeriad trydydd parti”) has the meaning given by paragraph 3(1) of the Schedule;\n“vape” (“fêp”) means a device that—\n(a) vaporises substances, other than tobacco, for the purposes of inhalation through a mouthpiece (whether or not it also vaporises tobacco); and\n(b) is not a medical device within the meaning of regulation 2(1) of the Medical Devices Regulations 2002 or a medicinal product within the meaning of regulation 2(1) of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012;\n“vaping substance” (“sylwedd fepio”) means a substance, other than tobacco, that is intended to be vaporised with a vape;\n“vaporise” (“anweddu”) includes aerosolise;\n“variable monetary penalty” (“cosb ariannol amrywiadwy”) has the meaning given by paragraph 1(1)(b) in the Schedule.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 1.6.2025, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2002/618, amended by S.I. 2008/2936. There are other amending instruments but none are relevant."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2012/1916."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2024/1324/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:59:10.113428+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}